In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?—Michel Rudoy <[email protected]>